Last year 2010 on 20th of september I started my travel from Czech Republic Prague when I lifted my thumb direction to Germany with the objective to hitchhike around the world. And till now I was lucky,I have got to south America trough whole Europe,bit of Africa,crossed the Atlantic Ocean hitching different boats to South America landing Norteast of Brazil, Recife. This is the Blog about my adventures! I hope u will like it!

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Common expressions and not that common in Guarani (or whatever my libreta - small notebook) was able to write down in Paraguay

When I arrived after long run trough Argentinian nowhere land crossing from Bolivia to Formosa,Clorinda,where the number of people in the small settlements dont rise up to 800 or 1000 inhabitants in several hundered kilometers or in brazil it would be called cachinga vegetation. I arrived after one day and night to Capital of Paraguay - Asuncion. (I will write about the travel later on - it was quite interesting and I made some videos as well).

I knew that someone is going to be waiting for me over there and I managed to contact the person at the end.Without any guaranis in my pocket I managed to get to the city to the spot I was indicated to stay and wait.Well,asking me how I got there for free was - I walked,try to hitch - as I was already in the city and the place seemed to be hell far far away. So I stopped the public transport bus and the driver on my beggings plz plz I dont have any guaranis,can I still go with u? Just vawed with his hand I we went.

As I got to the spot,I managed to call and had to wait for about one hour for the person to appear. At that moment I met the controllers of the busses,who were sitting there where I have put my bag and were making the lines in their small cuadernillos ;) when the bus came and if :)I got an invitattion for Terere,which I had to courtesly refuse,as I am alergic to matein (anyway,though all my alergies,my curiosity was always stronger and I took a sip later on)Terere is typical drink from this area and its cold Mate. U just put cold water on Mate and normaly Mate over in Paraguay is mixed with different kind of herbs which should be good for health - like mint.We got in funnyc onversation with the guys and I started to make my Guarani vocabulary (as I really love to learn new languages and I used to know several people who spoke fluent Guarani and loved this language- which gave me much more curiosity).

If u would be interested how the Guarani sounds here comes the video

Its one year old,from my first trip to Foz de Iguazu and as I got translation out of one girl in Buenos Aires who was from Paraguay - The other truck driver is asking him,if he has already conquisted me. And the guy is saying Negative,negative :D

Ok, and now will come the vocabulary which I managed to write down from our conversation with bus controlers:) So dont take this serious,but could be useful for u later on. Anyway,paraguayos are one of the nicest people I have ever met,being even very funny,caring and helpful :)Please the pronounciation read in Spanish not in English like E is E not I,Sh is like in englis, ö is like hungarian ö,ü is read like russian strong y, h - like in english,ch like in english or spanish cha cha cha :)

1 - petú2 - mokeí3 - pohapö4 - inundü5 - potüSeems that noone can count over there higher then till 5 (they especially in Praguay speak with mixture of spanish and Guarani - especially the generation which was living during the despotic dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay from 1954 till 1989)

piedra - rock - ita (lot of places in brazil has name starting with Ita - close to rio there is a place called itacarai - means old's man rock as we already know ;)doblado - doubled - caré (like Itacare - the doubled stone)cobijar - walk with a limp - icarégrand - big -guasu (Do u know the huge waterfalls of Iguacu? - Its just ü - like water and guacu - big - Bigwater ;)

Paraguayos are in the things of asking the questions on relationships and how many kids or boyfriends u have the same as brazilians ;) I have been though wondering where do they have these questions from and which culture is it from,in Pragauay I found out!

Anyway the last package of words I got even without asking :DPlease take this vocabulary as the result of one hour talk with bus controllers waiting for someone to come.But at least it was fun and in further links u can find out on your own if it was truth or not;)

* I like more pronouciacion of Me/Yo Še - She - like the people were speaking,not the english written version which is Che - Če So in this text u can find it in both variants Che and She is the same thing

Paraguay is the only country in the world where almost everybody speaks Guarani and Spanish (means about 90 percent both of the languages). Guarani is taught on schools and talked on the streets.U can find books written in Guarani and even the learning texts. For sure u will find more Guarani online if u would be looking for it :) Tupi-Guarani was the basic native language of indians living in Brazil. Nowadays there stayed just the names of the cities and places in this language in Brazil and almost noone understeands. Its a pity :(** Read r like omething between l and r almost like english r. Thats why in my opinion in the states where were lot of guaranis in Brazil use english R in portuguese,which distiguish them from other regions - like Sao Paolo or Goiais

About me

I am a dreamer and cruel realist at the same time.
I love different kind of arts,philosophy,science,getting to know new cultures and new people with different way of seeing things from the different angles.
I enjoy the people who make u think for a days with just one question... hmmm :))
I am uncurable romantic, but huge sceptic on the other hand as well :P
I am solo female hitch-hiker,originaly from Slovakia,who have been playing for a very long time with the idea of why not to hitch-hike the world :) And one day I just decided to do it. And here I am!
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xsuzann.blogspot.com
http://hitchhiking-around-the-world.blogspot.com/